50-01 - Ask and thee shall receive
Just a polite reminder for those who forgot how Yvonne was being questioned...
"Cubi are shape shifters, you moron!"™
Just wanted to clear up any confusion before it happens. :P
Quote from: Starcat5 on December 20, 2024, 03:16:59 AM50-01 - Ask and thee shall receive
Just a polite reminder for those who forgot how Yvonne was being questioned...
"Cubi are shape shifters, you moron!"™
Just wanted to clear up any confusion before it happens. :P
If she couldn't give answers (adequate ones, anyway) to Lady Finch, I'd wager they'd interrogate someone higher in the chain of command. And there's only one person I can think of who fits that description...
50-03 - Daryil does not, in fact, have the Key to Time.
Excellent reference.
50-04 - If Daryil was a dragon, he'd hoard criminals.
Nothing to add. The subtitle says it all, really. :mowtongue
Well, according to this one book I'm reading (Negotiating the Non-Negotiable - How to resolve your most emotionally-charged conflicts, by Daniel Shapiro), a very bad way to get to change someone to change their mind is to appeal to reason, while completely ignoring what's deeply-important to them about their current beliefs, and why.
...And honestly, that matches very well with my own observations, with multiple groups trying to get each-other to drop the others' beliefs on the spot, calling each-other names, etc...
Honestly, this book has a lot of stuff that I haven't seen in any other book on conflict-resolution. (And as someone who gets into a lot of conflict without meaning to, I've read a LOT of conflict-resolution books and stuff. ='D; ) It's also resonated with a lot of things I've noticed, whether things that seem right, or things that seem wrong.
Quote from: Infranscia on January 17, 2025, 03:33:38 AMWell, according to this one book I'm reading (Negotiating the Non-Negotiable - How to resolve your most emotionally-charged conflicts, by Daniel Shapiro), a very bad way to get to change someone to change their mind is to appeal to reason, while completely ignoring what's deeply-important to them about their current beliefs, and why.
Yeah - this isn't the last word on the matter, and I'm sure they'll continue arguing about it off-camera over the next few decades/centuries.
You've also got the question of who's trying to change who's mind. At the end of the day, Daryil is an absolute monarch and Nigel has to go with what he wants. Daryil is taking the cautious approach, whereas Nigel is advocating for killing wrongdoers, something which is tricky to undo if they change their mind later or discover mitigating circumstances down the line*.
Daryil may not have succeeded in enlightening Nigel at this point, but Nigel has not managed to convince Daryil to change the status quo either.
*Which is its own can of worms. Once you've executed someone, there is a strong impetus for the powers that be to fight tooth and nail to crush any attempts at further investigation, because they do
not want to be shown to have made a mistake like that. So they will fight to perpetuate the injustice just to save face.
50-08 - Daryil the deal-maker
My sympathies to Merlin. Ignoring that I have been sick all weekend myself, I also have an issue of going into Thermal Narcolepsy when the temp reaches 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.66 degrees Celsius). As such, I shall leave it to others to make jokes about "Heat Issues" within the Furry Fandom. :mwaha
Quote from: Starcat5 on February 11, 2025, 08:24:29 AM50-08 - Daryil the deal-maker
My sympathies to Merlin. Ignoring that I have been sick all weekend myself, I also have an issue of going into Thermal Narcolepsy when the temp reaches 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.66 degrees Celsius). As such, I shall leave it to others to make jokes about "Heat Issues" within the Furry Fandom. :mwaha
Anything above 25C and you'll find my muscles turn to liquid and I'm best kept in a refrigerated area or pool. :)
50-10 - Learn how to be sexy, and how not to be sexy
So basically a Cubi supplemental to Sex Ed Class, so you don't need what they teach you in Sex Ed class.
"Get it out of your system, so no one spends 9 months with something in their system." >:3
Richard is so clan Daryil
50-11 - Even evil has its standards
Nice save there, Richard. Also, I love how exasperated Fa'Lina looks in the flashback. Difficult to display any other emotion when you've got Countess "Rape and soul-eating are our clan's raison d'être" speaking haughtily in your right ear and Mr "I'm not letting any child of mine become a soul-devouring rapist" growling angrily in your left. (Forgive me if I've gotten identities and genders mixed up)
P.S. my apologies to both Tapewolf and Merlin for your assorted recent difficulties.
Quote from: ProfesseurRenard on March 02, 2025, 12:36:30 PMDifficult to display any other emotion when you've got Countess "Rape and soul-eating are our clan's raison d'être" speaking haughtily in your right ear and Mr "I'm not letting any child of mine become a soul-devouring rapist" growling angrily in your left. (Forgive me if I've gotten identities and genders mixed up)
Only Merlin knows for sure, but that's my reading of it as well. The shiny one's attitude looks a lot more like "You can't do that to our children!" than the colourful "Oh well, in that case we won't bother..."
Plus I like the idea of the one with the "evil outfit" being the more moral of the two.
Quote from: Tapewolf on March 03, 2025, 09:37:40 AMPlus I like the idea of the one with the "evil outfit" being the more moral of the two.
Yes, delicious sense of irony.